Oil-separator.



I. Wi. TATMAN.

OIL SEPARATOR.

APPucATiou FILED 1uLY 20. 1912.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept., lihvllil 'to Application yiled July 20, 1912. Serial No. 710,588.

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Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. TATMAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of erica, residing at Taft, in the county of Kern and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil-Separators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in oil separators, and has particular application to a device of this character for treating the product from oil wells, so as to separate the water from the oil.

Another object of the invention is to produce a separator wherein the water is separated from the oilwhere the product comes from the well in an emulsified condition, but does not remove the lighter constituents from the crude oil. s

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists ofthe following novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out inthe appended claim.

In the drawings The figure represents a diagrammatic view of the apparatus.

Referring in detail to the construction of the apparatus, the numeral 1 designates a suitable form of heating coil designed to contain a suitable quantity of heating duid, such for example, as Water, although any other `fluid may be utilized and adapted to be placed ina suitable form of furnace (not shown) in proximity to the burning fluid therein, whereby the duid in the heating coil may be heated to the desired temperature usually 212 Fahrenheit, although this temperature may be varied in accordance with the r uirements of any particular case. The coll, in the present instance, terminates in two parallel limbs 2, suitably spaced apart and each having the free extremity thereof equipped with a coupling) 3.

Mounted within the coil 1 and prefera ly centrally thereof, is a second coil 4 adapted to receive the oil to be treated and extending outwardly of the coil 1 by way of the couplings 3 and through Ysuitable stuiiing boxes 5 are extensions 6. One of these extensions communicates with an oil tank or holder 7,

whichfcontains the oil to be treated, whilel the opposite extension is'in communication with areceiver 9, this extension being indicated at 8. The receiver 9 receives the oil aubsequent to the passage thereof through the inner coil and after being heated to the communication with the tank 12, which is designed to contain the heating fluid. One of the pipes or conduits 11 has communication with the bottom of the tank, while the other pipe communicates with the top thereof, so that the fluid within'the tank may How through the heating coil and back into the tank, the fluid being preferably under pressure from any suitable source to facilitate the circulation. The tank 12 may be supported in any suitable manner or in any convenient location, and in the present instance is shown sup orted upon a column 13.

In order to edectively heat the duid dowing through the heating coil, withoutA necesthe desired temperature-in a relatively short time, there is provided a by-pass 14, which, is preferably located between the conduits or pipes 11 in advance of the tank 12 and between such tank and the heating coil, such by-pass enabling the Huid to circulate through the heatingcoil without rentering the tank. Thus, it will be seen that the duid within the heating coil may be initially heated in a relatively short time and without the necessity of heating the fluid in the tank 12; furthermore, it will be noted that any loss of the fluid circulating through the heating coil due` to vaporization will be immediately taken up owing to the tank 12 V*being in communication with the heating -coil independently loit the b -pass. 'However, a certain per cent. of t e duid in the coil will be forced back into the tank by way of the pipe 11 communicating with the tank at the upper'end thereof, so that the water or other fluid within the tank will be maintained warm in the continued operation `of, the separator, thereby, eliminating chillin of the duid within the heating coil when e tank feeds such coil to take up any loss therein.

From the foregoing description it is believed that the construction, operation and advantages of the'invention will be apparent. lt 1s to! be noted that 'the apparatus heats the oil wit a closed pipe,

'sitating the heating the duid contained withlin the tank 12, so that the separator may be brought into immediate use when desired and the heating fluid in the coil 4 heated to.-

eliminating bubbling and waste incident thereto and the separator may be put into service and the uid withinV the heating coil heated to the desired temperature in a rela- 5 tively short period of time. A

Having described the invention, what is claimed, is;

An apparatus of the class described comprising an oil circulating coil, a heating coil 10 inclosmg the said oil circulating coil, a water tank arranged above the heating coil, said heating coil having its ends connected weones respectively with the bottom and top porl in the coil at a point below the tank.

In testimony whereof aiiix my signature in presence of two witnessesn JOSEEH M. TATMAN.

Witnesses: i

E. H. CONKLIN, C. C. PAINTER. 

